First Tubular Steel Chair

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One of the first models a Breuer design of 1928.

First Tubular Steel Chair. The Wassily or B3 Club Chair 1924 was the first chair to be manufactured from tubular steel. In 1919 Milan-based industrialist Angelo Luigi Colombo founded an eponymous metallurgy which quickly achieved preeminence in crafting thin strong steel tubes. In 1925 he designed and built the first chair entirely of chrome-plated tubular steel Frame no50.

Chromed bent tubular steel leather The first project assigned to Charlotte Perriand 1903-1999 by Le Corbusier 1887-1965 was to design a series of chairs to furnish Maison La Roche a house he was designing in Paris. Inspired by the frame of a bicycle a product he greatly admired for its functional design Breuer saw tubular steel as a way of building a more transparent chair. Tubular metal chairs have been made for many years and versions that date back to the 20th Century alongside those produced as recently as the 20th Century.

This chair was revolutionary in the use of the materials bent tubular steel and eisengarn and methods of manufacturing. The frame of the chair was made from polished bent nickelled tubular. It was an armchair the first version made of nickel-plated steel tubes welded to form a rigid frame with four vertical legs that bent over and then down to support the seat and back both of which were inclined steel frames across which fabric was.

The chair was designed in 1925 inspired by a bicycle frame. Marcel Breuer a Hungarian furniture maker and architect who studied at the Bauhaus and became one of its most important faculty members was among the first to use tubular steel in chairs. This became an iconic design best representing the modernist philosophy of simplicity and functionality.

In 1925 Marcel Breuer became the first designer to construct furniture out of tubular steel a step that would revolutionise modern living. During that time he designed the first tubular steel chair in the history of design. There are many kinds of tubular metal chairs to choose from but at 1stDibs Mid-Century Modern Art Deco and Modern tubular metal chairs are of considerable interest.

The first design using the bent tubular steel was given the name B3 a numbering system Breuer would use for all his furniture for the next several years. From this observation came his famous 1925 Wassily chromed tubular steel and stretched leather sling chair and the 1927 Cesca cantilevered steel-and-cane chair. Its design was inspired by the shape and form of a bicycle handlebars.

By the late 1920s a new industry had emerged that made the new tubular steel furniture accessible to an ever-growing consumer market. For Sale on 1stDibs - This tubular steel armchair was produced by Vichr in former Czechoslovakia in the 1930th. One for conversation another for relaxation and a third for sleeping.

Dutch architect Mart Stam designed a chair made from gas pipe and standard pipe joint fittings in 1927. These included the B3 chair designed in 1925 the first tubular steel chair for domestic use it was later rebranded the Wassily Chair by marketing-savvy Italians and is still known by that name today. 1925 Marcel Breuer was an apprentice at the Bauhaus when he conceived the worlds first tubular steel chair.

Another revolutionary step in the development of modern furniture was the tubular steel cantilever chair. Marcel Breuer headed the Furniture Workshop at the Bauhaus from 1925 to 1928. Hungarian-American architect Marcel Breuer was known for his innovative furniture design and use of tubular steel.

This inspired him to experiment with using the material in furniture design. Up to that time steel tubing had mainly been used for hospital furniture. Some tubular metal chairs are too large for some spaces a variety of smaller tubular metal chairs.

The B3 chair later also known as Wassily. One of the original Cesca Chairs is on display in the Museum of Modern Art Manhattan. The wooden parts with a birch veneer has been restored.

Breuer designed the Cesca Chair named after Breuers adopted daughter Francesca nicknamed Cheska in 1928. In far-flung Des Moines and Holland similar experiments with tubular steel furniture were taking place in the 1920s. It was inspired by bicycle tubular steel handle bars.

In 1925 Breuer purchased his first bicycle and he was impressed with the lightness of its tubular steel frame. The Cesca chair in. Though he created many pieces of furniture in his time the Wassily chair is his most iconic piece.

It was the first chair made with tubular steel and caned seating that was mass-produced.

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